A Letter from the Editor
For this first Issue of Volume 15, our Editors and their readers have curated a trio of literary works that illuminate the emotions we pin to the inanimate and the mundane, all while offering some insight as to how we can move forward in the world today.
Birds That Do Not Matter
Maybe the House Sparrow should form a support group for Birds Who Don’t Matter. Invite the pigeons, starlings, those seagulls that hang around grocery store parking lots. They’d invite the Canada goose, but he’s always too busy and secretly they’re all relieved because, come on, it’s a Canada Goose.
Early October
dog sniff-sniffing in the rust-worn goldenrod
alert to acorn drop and chickadee.
Thrift
The last car-filled donation drop at the Goodwill had been only five days earlier. Had Barry been a part of that drop? She couldn’t remember. At that moment, standing in front of the clown, that old friend, that old foe, it felt like a fresh wound, though she could have sworn it had already scabbed over.
Seeing the Beasts
It’s a heavy burden, but one we can’t seem to shake, to dip into that moonlit pond by the cavern, and resurface with a living poem—the messy made heard and seen.